“For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3

The Christ follower has died to self and your new life is hidden in the death and resurrection of Jesus.

The privilege of hiding in Christ is you can have a private and endearing relationship with Jesus, the Son of God. He desires to be up close and personal in every moment of your life.

As a believer, you hide in Christ from the projectiles of Satan. You live in the world but you are not of the world. Jesus protects those who worship Him in Spirit and Truth.

Your residence is in “no man’s land”. This is an area between two encroaching armies. The war is between light and darkness. You are like a combatant fighting off the advances of Satan.

You are on a journey with Christ and your purpose on earth is hidden from your eyes.

The new life is unveiled through vigilant prayer and a sincere desire to seek the will of God.

The value of hiding in Christ is you will live with Him forever and inherit all of the benefits of His citizenship.

The Holy Spirit keeps you hidden in Christ from the temptations of the world and focused on seeking first the kingdom of God.

Hiding in Christ will give you the ability to escape the “misery index” regardless of the circumstances in your life. The Holy Spirit will fill you with the joy, strength, and the peace of God.

The wrath of God does not come down on those who are hiding in Christ with trembling fear and respect for His name.

Hiding in Christ is walking by faith and trusting Jesus to deliver you from all the challenges of life.

What prevents a believer from hiding in Christ is an incredulous attitude of unbelief. Come to Me by faith and I will deliver all those who are hanging by a thread with no way out. I am Christ the Lord and there is no one like Me.

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever,” Hebrews 13:8

The word from God today is immutable which is defined as unchanging.

God is immutable which means you can trust implicitly in the promises of Jesus.

The challenge for a believer is not to get caught up in the world. 

The world is in a state of change. It is transitioning from a beautiful creation of God into a morass of evil. The world is motivated by greed and living by self imposed standards. 

The world is demoralizing and will lead you astray from Jesus. This is because the world does not operate under the authority of Christ.

As believers we stray between God and the strong pull of the world. We have a cursory attitude about the importance of God and tend to be motivated by self interests. 

Don’t step into the world until you have met with the Living Christ. He will fill you with strength, wisdom, joy and protection and help you overcome the temptations of the world. 

Commit your works each day to Jesus and live under the authority of the Holy Spirit.

This will allow you to enjoy the world without becoming estranged from God.

Pray for the mind of Christ so you can walk in the light and avoid the darkness. 

Jesus wants to give you precious treasures that you can never find in the world! He lives in His word.

“But Christ is all and in all” Colossians 3:11

The word from God today is empirical referring to the ability to experience the reality of Jesus in person.

You can verify the authenticity of Jesus by personally making contact with Him. This does not involve human logic or intellect.

This is available at this very moment to anyone without any strings attached.

There is no sectionalism in the heart of God.

Jesus breaks down all racial, cultural, political and religious barriers with the gift of salvation.

No one is estranged from the ability to live with Jesus.

The revelation of Christ is that He is present everywhere and sees everything. He is a ubiquitous God and nothing is hidden from Him.

He is next to you at this very moment. Jesus sees through the eyes of the seven spirits of God who roam the world.

Jesus is in charge of a massive army of angels who are powerful spiritual beings. He dispatches the angels all over the world to do His work. There is one near you at this very moment.

The Holy Spirit who is the life of Christ sees every detail of your life and knows you better than you know yourself.

Jesus is omniscient and can see into history, the present moment or the future. He knows every thought you will have today before you wake up.

Jesus has power and dominion over the heavens and earth. He can shake the earth, turn the sun into darkness, or destroy a nation in a split second.

Jesus can raise a human being from death and resuscitate his ability to breathe, live and move.

Nothing is impossible for Jesus.

This is an invitation to come into the holiest and most sacred place in the universe. All are welcome regardless of your past or many mistakes.

Come to Jesus today and see that He is all and in all. You can peek into His kingdom by reaching out to Jesus with an open heart.

Just ask Jesus to show you who He is and then be quiet, look around and listen for His voice.

You will see the majesty of God, hear His voice and your life will never be the same!

“Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.” Hebrews 13:14

There is a risk in walking with God but the rewards are overwhelming. The journey is controversial, unpredictable and will take you into dark places. 

The altar of God is Holy. In the Old Testament the blood of animals provided forgiveness of sins and made the Israelites clean in the eyes of God.

However, the bodies of the animals were contaminated and were required to be burned outside the camp. Jesus was also crucified outside the camp. The camp represents the essence of God in the Holy city of Jerusalem. Today, the Holy city is the kingdom of God located in Heaven.

As a Christ follower you have to go outside the camp bearing the rebuke of God over sin. There is no continuing city for a believer sitting in a church or functioning in the world.

We are not of the world and must seek the high prize of God through our journey outside the camp.

We must go outside into the ugly morass of humanity. If you attempt to live in the camp you will be tied to the chains of religion and never experience the Living Christ. The signs and wonders of God occur in dark places inhabited by those living under a stronghold of Satan.

You and I are imperfect human vessels operating with the powerful life of Christ dwelling within us. We live and move and have our being outside the camp. This is where we can please God. The camp is reserved for you after death.

The charge from God is to offer the sacrifice of praise to Jesus with your lips and to have a heart of thanksgiving. This transcends all your troubles. We have no excuse regardless of the dire conditions of life.

God desires for you to do good and share your abundance with others.

The sacrifice of denying self and living for Jesus brings great pleasure to the Most High and you will be rewarded with the treasures of God.

The biggest misconception in Christianity is seeing Jesus for what we want Him to be and not for who He is. This causes conflict, anger and blame in your relationship with Him.

The word from God today is denigrating the name of Christ. This means to criticize unfairly or disparage. This is a widespread practice in the Body of Christ and is a pathetic response to the greatness and glory of God. 

We have tunnel vision about God and at times treat Him like a second class citizen. We do this with our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Many believers come across as proper, neat and saintly. They hide behind religion and are not in touch with the Living Christ.

We denigrate God because things are not going our way and we need someone to blame.

We believe God is the highest authority in our life but He is failing in His job.

We denigrate Christ by exaggerating His claims and whitewashing His words to satisfy our needs and lifestyle.

We denigrate God by striving through our own efforts and failing to live by faith.

We denigrate God by operating with impure motives. We put self above God. 

We denigrate God by attempting to use Him to accomplish our goals.

We denigrate God for testing us through His words and actions. We call Him disingenuous or usually speak much stronger words.

We denigrate God for the seasons of deprivation, pain and suffering. Jesus gives and takes for His purposes. Yours is not to question the ways of God. They are perfect.

Denigrating God will get you nowhere and only dig your hole deeper. You grieve the Holy Spirit and bring curses upon your life. 

God can do with a Christ follower as He pleases. Yours is not to complain but to come before Him with praise and thanksgiving believing in His promises.

When I woke up this morning God told me He favors those who feel utterly useless to Him and know they are made with a sordid (or depraved) nature. Jesus has a heart for the downtrodden.

We denigrate Christ because we have a mistaken vision of His purpose for our life. We are to die to self and live for Christ.

Give Jesus permission to do with you regardless of the cost or sacrifice. He wants your obedience to His voice without any argument or need for human logic.

Jesus desires to give you an abundant life but He wants to accomplish this His way. If Jesus were to snap His fingers today and give you prosperity and fame this would probably ruin your life and bring utter destruction upon you.

God has to make us into His people who operate by faith with the values of Christ. We have to be able to greet each day with a desire to do His will above all else. We have to accept the testing and correction without lashing out at God.

The prosperity of God comes to those who are motivated by living in oneness with Jesus and accepting life on God’s terms.

Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. He is a perfect God in an imperfect world!

“And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30

The word from God today is about the consequences of denial.

Denial is a behavior in every Christ follower.

If you are a non believer, denial is not an issue. You don’t accept the validity of Christ and can’t deny something you don’t believe in.

Denial is living for self and rejecting the desires of Christ. This nature is ingrained inside you and will never leave you while on this earth.

God wants to deal with this subject today because denial deprives you of the treasures of Christ. God knows your personality better than you know yourself. He laid down His life to crucify your self nature. He wants you to have the very best.

The Cross was an act of compassion and love for you. Denial diminishes the power of Christ in a believer. It prevents you from receiving the fullness from our great God.

Denial brings death to the Living Christ dwelling inside you. The richness of the privileges of Christ are not available to you. The door to the transfigured Christ is not open.

How can you deal with this monster of self living inside you?

First you have to admit you are an impoverished soul and can never match up to the standards of God.

You cannot overcome this monster through your own efforts or with religion. You have no will power to fight this nature of self indulgence.

The solution is to ask God by faith to do this work of transformation. He will crucify your inner nature and replace self with the character of God.

Pray each day for the will of God with an open heart. Listen to the voice of God. Invite the Holy Spirit to have authority over your mind and decision making.

Give Jesus permission to make you “Christ like”. It will be painful at times but the outcome will give you an abundant life filled with the goodness of Christ.

“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10

Soliloquy is like an oration when God speaks His words to others.

The soliloquy of Christ for today is the word “epitomize” which means to be be a perfect example of someone. 

How can you and I epitomize Jesus?

The answer is we can’t without dramatic change.

The gift of salvation comes to you by faith. It is a precious gift from God to be valued over anything in life.

God prepared this gift for you before you were born.

You must take your hands off this gift. Salvation does not belong to you. And, you have no control over how God chooses to use you for His purposes. You belong to God and He can do with you as He pleases. 

Salvation is the work of God to create a new creature in the nature of Jesus. 

This is about God working through an imperfect human vessel to do the perfect work of God.

Salvation is the act of dying to self and living for Christ. The Holy Spirit transforms you into a new creature operating with the values of Christ. He equips you with the gifts of the Holy Spirit to enable you to be a powerful witness for Jesus.

The work of God is based on the principle of binding and loosing. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. God will employ you in this enterprise regardless of your position in life.

The principle of binding is breaking the power of Satan through vigilant prayer and intercession. The Spirit labors inside you to bring down strongholds. You confront evil and execute the judgment of God.

You are also charged by God with loosing the Living Water to draw those around you to Jesus. 

As a believer, you are a powerful light for God filled with the Holy Spirit. God desires for you to reflect His renown, praise and glory in all your words and actions. The Living Water is the authenticity of Christ and saves lives.

You also may be asked by God to do the work of evangelism or counsel others with the truths of God. You will be anointed and equipped to create powerful results.

The results of binding and loosing will carry over to heaven and you will be abundantly blessed by our magnificent God.

My will be done on earth as it is in Heaven is the purpose of a Christ follower. You are my anointed ambassador to bring light into darkness.

The word from God today is scapegoat. God spoke this to me last night in reference to Jesus. He also told me apostasy is increasing in the Body of Christ. Believers are rejecting Christ for more contemporary versions of God.

The term scapegoat originated in Jewish tradition. It was a biblical ceremony honoring God. A goat was selected and upon his head was symbolically placed the sins of the people and then the goat was released into the wilderness.

God is holy and will not be contaminated with your sin. There has to be an atonement or cleansing of your sin in the eyes of God. This is the only way you can live in contact with Him.

The animal sacrifices did not work. They had no sustaining ability to purify a human being. Once a sinner always a sinner.

God replaced the scapegoat and the system of animal sacrifices in the Old Testament with Jesus. 

God created a son in His image. Jesus was appointed to be a sacrifice for sin and the method for a human being to be reestablished with God and to be transformed into the character of God.

Jesus was the lamb led to the slaughter by His Father. This is the Messianic complex. Jesus died so we can live with God forever and experience the richness of the gift of salvation every moment of our life.

The point of this discussion is you and I have an impoverished soul and can never get right with God through our own efforts or religion or doing works. You are stuck in the mud and on the outside looking at a closed door.

Jesus was innocent but prosecuted. He was punished for your sins. 

Today the term scapegoat is used to blame someone for the mistakes of others. He is a target of abuse and persecution. 

The scapegoat is Jesus. He is the only way you can be reconciled to Jesus and inherit the treasures of our great God.

“We have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus” Hebrews 10:19

The word from God for today is surrogate referring to the concept of a substitute.

Last night God gave me a vision of people traveling on an airplane without a pilot. The plane was spinning out of control. This why you and I need a surrogate Christ!

The surrogate can replace our impoverished souls with the life of Christ.

The surrogate is like a legal guardian looking over your interests.

The surrogate takes the place or stands in for your weaknesses.

The surrogate is a substitute for your sins, compulsive behaviors and rebellion against God. He substitutes the life of Christ for your natural condition at birth. He transforms you into the character of God. Your sinful condition is replaced by the righteous of God.

The surrogate is the resurrected power of Christ. This power comes from heaven and cannot be found in a non believer.

You have to get out of the way if you want the surrogate power of Christ. This power does not think or act like you. He replaces your mind with the mind of Christ.

The surrogate power comes to those who walk by faith and are obedient to the voice of God.

You can trade in your life for the surrogate life of Christ. It is a decision to live for Jesus above all else.

The surrogate is a person. Jesus is alive and desires to have a personal and embracing relationship with you.

The surrogate wants to fight for your rights and protect you.

The surrogate changes ashes into beauty!

Why waste your time chasing a storybook Jesus? The word from God today is esoteric referring to the myth about the person of Jesus.

First of all, Jesus is alive and wants to be a living reality in your life. Jesus does not live in history; He desires to live in every moment of your life. He is not illusive or distant.

Jesus is an every day God who wants to come down from heaven and meet you personally. Jesus desires to have conversations with you and share the attributes of His life with you.

Jesus is not religious man. He is not asking you to keep laws, practice religion or do works to please Him.

How do you remove the esoteric label? This happens through prayer and opening your heart up to Jesus. You don’t have to jump in with both feet. He will definitively prove to you that He is worth more than anything in the world.

Reach out in prayer by speaking honestly about your feelings and ask Him to help you with all your needs. This is not a monologue; you must listen to what Jesus has to say.

The cornerstone in a relationship with Jesus is built on faith. He wants you to believe His words and walk by faith and not by what you see with your eyes.

The government of God is on the shoulders of Jesus. He wants you to obey Him and live under His authority. This is for your own protection and to provide you with an abundant life which you can never achieve on your own.

Now lets deal with the Bible. Jesus doesn’t look upon the Bible as a historical manuscript. Jesus lives and communicates through His words. He desires for you to extract the truths from the Bible and appropriate His values into your life.

The miracle of Jesus is the gift of salvation. This has nothing to do with time. Jesus seals you with the Holy Spirit. He is the life of Jesus and is your direct link to the Living Christ. He is the source of the unlimited strength, wisdom, joy and protection of God.

Jesus does not want you to live on the surface and short change yourself. He wants you to live in the depth of His heart and receive the fullness of His greatness and glory.

How can you say no this awesome God?

“Before Me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after Me. I, even I, am the Lord” Isaiah 43:10-11